Can I know how you got the 45k figure please? Just curious

Many Malaysians are now pursuing medicine due to the perceived good life that they will have in the future, i.e. moving to private sector where they will earn big bucks. Eventhough the situation in the public hospitals are overwhelming, they always convince themselves that once they join the private sector, they will lead a comfortable life raking in big money.

My question I would like to post is, does anyone know how much these specialists can earn in private, like say KPJ or Pantai hospitals? Some say more than RM100k a month, some say reaching RM40k is also considered good. So let's have a discussion on this so that we would have future doctors who enter the profession for passion, not just money per se. Appreciate any input that you guys might have! Thanks

Yup I realised this too. Seems to be a huge range quoted on this forum. Imagine doctors getting 200k a month. Sounds way too overpaid to me

My boss is a surgeon at gleaneagles and hukm rake in 400k++ per month

In my very humble opinion:

1. If you're money minded, you will not find it easy to be a good doctor and make a lot of money at the same time. Although being a good doctor does not preclude the practitioner from becoming wealthy, the trajectory of wealth accumulation and generation will be vastly different to that of a successful businessman. It's not uncommon for passionate doctors to take a long time to accumulate wealth, as opposed to people in other professions. A lot of times, doctors make decisions against their own interests - because the patient's condition and illness demands such a conclusion. A simple example is do we give oral antibiotics for what is likely a simple viral infection of the throat with fever? If we don't, we lose out on the margin of profit from the sale of antibiotics, but if we do, we expose the patient to potential future antibiotic resistance because the antibiotics were given unnecessarily.

2. Doctors don't make good investors - because investors sometimes have to take risks to realise big gains, and doctors need to be risk adverse, as taking risks may end up harming the patient's outcome when a more conservative option would have been the safer decision. An example would be conservative treatment vs. surgical intervention for cervical spondylosis with radiculopathic pain. Conservative treatment involves analgesics, nerve relaxants, physiotherapy and the use of a soft neck collar. It's slow, boring and unexciting - but it's safe and most patients do eventually recover. Surgical intervention may involve laminectomy and disc/spine fusion and reconstruction and "cement" injections. With any surgery, there are risks involved - and the ultimate risk is the patient may end up being paralysed and a quadriplegic or a paraplegic. And, if you find yourself armpit-deep in the red from your forays into the stock market, would you then be tempted to push the envelop of risk for your patients, in order to recoup the paper losses?

3. In an ideal medical scenario, money and medicine are mutually exclusive - medical care is given solely only to those who need it, not to those who can best afford to pay a premium for it.

The attitude, character and personality required to be a successful - and dedicated - doctor is quite different from many other professions. I'm not the final judge or arbiter to say one is better to the other; in fact, it's merely different. You'll have to find the profession &/or specialty that best suits your personality and character - otherwise, you may find it a miserable existence for the next 40 or so years of your working life.
bauer, truer words were never spoken. Well done & welcome back to Malaysia.

Many Malaysians are now pursuing medicine due to the perceived good life that they will have in the future, i.e. moving to private sector where they will earn big bucks. Eventhough the situation in the public hospitals are overwhelming, they always convince themselves that once they join the private sector, they will lead a comfortable life raking in big money.

My question I would like to post is, does anyone know how much these specialists can earn in private, like say KPJ or Pantai hospitals? Some say more than RM100k a month, some say reaching RM40k is also considered good. So let's have a discussion on this so that we would have future doctors who enter the profession for passion, not just money per se. Appreciate any input that you guys might have! Thanks

Big variation according to centers and also specialty. Obviously those medical physicians will earn way less than say orthopaedic surgeon in big privates.

paediatrician and medical physician in private is roughly 30k per month only whereas Ortho surgeons can go up to 200k monthly in private

Owner of Klinik Siti chain... Lel u guess la earning brapa per month. 53 clinics in selangor under them

First girl I dated after graduate is a doctor.
I think her starting is 12k at the time.
Now must have been at least more than 25-30k per month.
She just have hee birthday a few days ago and at age 37 still unmarried, no time to travel overseas.
There is sacrifice.

Thank you for wise words.im pretty sure u already consultant level doctor.while im still an ikan bilis,still doing 2nd year of MOship in primary care,at the age of 30,wondering what to do in my life.

can personally say my dad was a medical specialist, now retired. the fact he bought condo for me and my bro each already goes to show how much specialists can earn.

never asked how much dad earns since what kid of son would ask such a question

but am really grateful for this for all the support

and he never liked buying high end cars compared to what his colleagues drive

air suam himself is owner of chain